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Microsoft Speech

Incorporate speech into every aspect of your Universal Windows app.

Launch an app or extend Cortana with app functionality and data using voice commands. Accept short input and long dictation using speech recognition. Inform, direct, solicit, or respond to input using speech synthesis.

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Speech recognition and speech synthesis

Support speech interactions by incorporating functionality from your app into Cortana, accomplishing tasks in your apps through speech recognition, and reading text strings aloud using speech synthesis.

Speech interactions

Design considerations

Guidelines and recommendations that describe how your app can best use speech input and output to interact with the user, including user interface basics, design principles, layout guidelines, templates, and more.

Speech design guidelines

Cortana

Extend Cortana with functionality provided by your app. Use voice commmands to launch your app, launch your app and execute a command, or incorporate functionality directly into the Cortana UI.

Cortana interactions

Speech recognition
Use speech recognition to provide input, specify an action or command, and accomplish tasks.
Enable continuous dictation
Learn how to capture and recognize long-form, continuous dictation speech input.
Define custom recognition constraints
Learn how to define and use custom constraints for speech recognition.

Microsoft Cognitive Services

Microsoft Cognitive Services include a cross-platform REST service that enables a variety of speech capabilities on internet-connected devices. In combination, the Cognitive Services Speech API and the WinRT Speech API form a complete and comprehensive speech platform for all types of devices and applications.